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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntire.

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Speaker 2: What is up straight firefam, It's me Jason McIntyre, Straight

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Speaker 2: Fire for Wednesday, October ninth. Uh listen. I dreaded this

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Speaker 2: day would come, folks. I had a feeling it was

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Speaker 2: on the horizon. I didn't think it'd be this imminent.

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Speaker 2: But yes, we will be doing a podcast today about

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Speaker 2: the departure of Robert Salah, head coach of the Jets.

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Speaker 2: First coach. Fire did not have that ticket. I thought

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Speaker 2: the Jets would be four and one at this stage,

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Speaker 2: ladies and germs. I had a vibe that they would

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Speaker 2: be better than they are. And now Robert Sala's gone.

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Speaker 2: So just to take you a little bit behind the curtain.

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Speaker 2: So you know, we got into a good groove with

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Speaker 2: Football podcast this season where we would do obviously a

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Speaker 2: Monday reaction show to the weekend in sports. We would

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Speaker 2: do a Tuesday reaction on Monday Night Football, and then

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Speaker 2: Wednesday and Thursday we do interviews and then Friday NFL

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Speaker 2: Picks and Thursday Night Football Reaction. And so I told Rob,

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, I got to get a Jets guy.

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Speaker 2: I got to get my guy, Brian Costello, and I

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Speaker 2: reached out to Brian. He's like, dude, I'm slammed. Maybe

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Speaker 2: I could fit it in. And Rob g hits me

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Speaker 2: up and he's like, you know, you don't want to

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Speaker 2: admit it, but your brand is kind of sports media Jets.

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Speaker 2: Those are like when people say Jason McIntyre, they think, oh,

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Speaker 2: it's a big league. Yeah, he's on the herd and

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Speaker 2: he's got straight fire and he's a Jets fan, and

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Speaker 2: kind of I don't want to say I'm a Lebron stand,

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Speaker 2: but I'm a Lebron guy. I don't mind a bit

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Speaker 2: agmat And so Rob's like, why don't you just riff

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Speaker 2: on the Jets? And I was like, you know, I

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Speaker 2: didn't really want to do it. I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't want to do twenty twenty five

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Speaker 2: thirty minutes ripping the Jets and tearing these these guys

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Speaker 2: to shreds. I've been a fan of the Jets since

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Speaker 2: I was in elementary school. I've told the story many times.

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Speaker 2: I was born in New York and then we moved

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Speaker 2: to My dad got a job at the government, so

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Speaker 2: we moved to Virginia. And so as you're a young guy,

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Speaker 2: and you start to like sports. It just so happens that,

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Speaker 2: like the Washington Redskins at the time were the dominant

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Speaker 2: football team, and they were. They were the hugest deal

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Speaker 2: in Virginia. There were no Baltimore Ravens at the time.

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Speaker 2: It was basically a Washington Redskins town. They had won

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Speaker 2: in the early eighties and then they by like what

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Speaker 2: nineteen was it, late eighties they really were cresting, and

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Speaker 2: then in the nineties they were amazing. But it was

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Speaker 2: a Redskins town. And I, guys, if you know anything

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Speaker 2: with Washington. Okay, you would be walking to school and

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Speaker 2: the crossing guards would be handing out like football cards

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Speaker 2: of Washington Redskins players, Darryl Green, the guys on the Hogs.

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Speaker 2: Was it like Jojacobe and all those guys. You know,

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Speaker 2: it was everything. They were the biggest deal in town,

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Speaker 2: and I, Jason was just like, no, I got back.

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Speaker 2: Washington was born in New York and the Jets had

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Speaker 2: you know, I had cool colors and they had this

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Speaker 2: wide receiver Altoon who was awesome and Wesley Walker. They

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Speaker 2: go to New York on holidays and I would obviously be,

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Speaker 2: but not great. They were good. The New York Giants

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Speaker 2: were better. But I was like, let me, let me

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Speaker 2: root for these underdogs, the Jets. And I've been a

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Speaker 2: fan ever since, and YadA, YadA, YadA. And I'll just

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Speaker 2: remind you, guys, two years ago when the Jets decided

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Speaker 2: we're going all in for Aaron Rodgers, I was shouting

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Speaker 2: from the rooftops on this podcast, on social media, on

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Speaker 2: the herd, wait a minute, Lamar Jackson isn't signing with

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Speaker 2: the Ravens. He's demanding a Deshaun Watson deal. I would

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Speaker 2: rather give that deal to to Lamar with the Jets

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Speaker 2: and overpay for Lamar then pay for Aaron Rodgers. He's old, guys,

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Speaker 2: kind of kind of a can we say he's a jerk.

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Speaker 2: And so I was not all about Aaron Rodgers, but

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Speaker 2: And then of course he gets hurt in four plays

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Speaker 2: not good. When Rogers came over, Salah goes to like

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Speaker 2: wonder what happened if Greg the leg makes that fifty

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Speaker 2: is the best Jets team we've had in twenty five years.

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Speaker 2: That's a come on. That Mark Sanchez team when Sanchez

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Speaker 2: they lost in a tough, tough AFC Championship game in

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Speaker 2: the game and Ben Roethlisberger kept converting third downs and

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Speaker 2: So Woody Johnson says, oh, this is the best team

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Speaker 2: to say, yeah, I talked to Aaron Rodgers last night,

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Speaker 2: but we didn't talk about Sala, Like how dumb do

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Speaker 2: I know football fare, you know derisively referred to as

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Speaker 2: troglodytes and beer drinking, Cheetos eating idiots who sit on

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Speaker 2: that's just idiotic for Whatody Johnson to think anybody's gonna

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Speaker 2: believe that, Yeah, I talked to my quarterback last night

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Speaker 2: and then I fired the coach this morning. Like, who's

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Speaker 2: gonna believe that Rogers had no say in this? It's

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Speaker 2: very obvious that Aaron Rodgers put the knife in Salas back.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying Rogers said fire him, but when the

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Speaker 2: not a resounding vote of confidence. That's obvious, or Sala

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Speaker 2: Hey Johnson, he gets it. He wants Nathaniel Hackett done deal,

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Speaker 2: I get it, But why would you fire Sala? Now? Okay,

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Speaker 2: you didn't get embarrassed by the Vikings. You lost, and

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Speaker 2: it was your quarterback's fault. He threw three picks, including

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Speaker 2: Now that's probably a little too much Jets in primetime

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Speaker 2: I know the coach doesn't have that as much impact,

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Speaker 2: the sky's not falling. It just it made absolutely no sense.

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Speaker 2: were young, Sam Darneld Jerseys. Of course, you know, then

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Speaker 2: they get to be like what eight nine? They're like, Dad,

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Speaker 2: why are you a Jets fan? The Jets are terrible?

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Speaker 2: You should root for the Chiefs, so the forty nine

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Speaker 2: What is interesting is Robert Sala went to work on Tuesday,

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